Hydrologic implications of dynamical and statistical approaches to downscaling climate model outputs

Climatic Change

Volumn 62, Issue 1-3, 2004, Pages 189-216

  Wood, A W ^a   Leung, L R ^b   Sridhar, V ^a   Lettenmaier, D P ^a  

^a University of Washington   (United States)

^b U S DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLIMATOLOGY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; INTERPOLATION; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; PRECIPITATION (METEOROLOGY);

LINEAR INTERPOLATION (LI); REGIONAL CLIMATE MODEL (RCM);

HYDROLOGY;

CLIMATE CHANGE; CLIMATE MODELING; DOWNSCALING; HYDROLOGICAL REGIME; RESOLUTION;

EID: 1542381343     PISSN: 01650009     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/B:CLIM.0000013685.99609.9e     Document Type: Article

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